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Toys “R” Us might not have too many Christmases left, at least if you listen to what the bond market is saying. Investors have been dumping obligations owed by the largest U.S. toy retailer in recent months, pushing the dollar price of those bonds sh...

Twitter has hired a Google advertising executive to be head of retail, as the company ramps up hiring and works to expand its business ahead of an initial public offering. J.J. Hirschle, who directed media and entertainment advertising at Google, wil...

Steve Jobs's star power continues to shine in the publishing world. Walter Isaacson's authoritative biography of Apple's late founder, written with his full cooperation before his death, is one of six candidates in the eighth annual Financial Times a...

Popular note-taking platform Evernote continues its hockey stick-style growth and is today celebrating 5 million users. Evernote is now signing up new users in record time; the jump from 4 million to 5 million users happened in just 83 days. The 5 mi...

Mixpanel, a real-time web analytics and analysis service for understanding how users behave with web apps, has just announced a $500,000 angel investment round coming from three of the web's most successful entrepreneurs: Max Levchin, co-founder of P...

Let's take a trip back in time. The year is 1994, and two tech giants are going to war over copyright. They are Microsoft and Apple, and they are fighting over a copyright claim by Apple over Microsoft and HP's use of graphical user interface element...

If you thought AT&T and Verizon weren't at war already, today will change your mind. In an effort to undercut each other, both networks have dropped the prices of their unlimited voice plans, including the unlimited plans of iPhone owners (but with a...

We thought Zillow's 2011 IPO was a good sign for the tech and Internet market. Intel has not only just confirmed that notion, but blown everybody's expectations right out of the water. The world's largest chipmaker just wowed Wall Street and the tech...

It's taken several months, but it looks like the deal is done: Comcast is buying NBC Universal from GE. Well, at least 51 percent of it. While the deal still has to pass regulatory hurdles, it seems likely that The Tonight Show and The Office are goi...

Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft along with Bill Gates, has been diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, a cancer that affects the lymphocytes of the immune system, according to multiple reports. He has previously battled Hodgkin disease, another ty...

Technology powerhouse Hewlett Packard (HP) has just announced that it has struck a deal to acquire 3Com, one of the world's leading networking hardware and software companies, for a giant $2.7 billion price tag. The deal, if it goes through, will bri...

After a saga that simply defied explanation, the eBay/Skype lawsuit has finally been settled. The founders of Skype have returned to their creation. A recap of the story: eBay bought Skype for $2.6 billion back in 2005. Skype's founders, Niklas Zenns...

Carl Icahn, the famed hard-nosed billionaire and corporate raider who attempted to seize control of Yahoo after the company rejected Microsoft's $50+ billion acquisition offer, has resigned his position as a member of the Yahoo Board of Directors, ac...

Many once-mighty forces in journalism and media are rapidly declining. Few demonstrate this better than today's news that Bloomberg has acquired BusinessWeek for less than $5 million. The business periodical, founded in 1929, has been seeking a new o...

The business social network LinkedIn is not just a way to connect with your business contacts. For a lot of recruiters, salespeople, and other professionals, it's a great business database for finding potential leads and new employees. Organizing the...

It's always fun when two very smart companies join forces to shake up an industry. SplashCast Media and Clearspring Technologies have joined forces and put their respective strengths together to create a social advertising platform for consumer brand...

This week’s edition of Advertising Age has a somewhat revealing piece concerning movements in Web media space by some old media titans. In particular, The New York Times versus The Wall Street Journal. We’ve heard the WSJ talk adventurous talk in mon...

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